What would happen if an asteroid crashed into our moon?

Answer 1

re: What would happen if an asteroid crashed intoo our moon

Not much, Unless it was rather large see what the moon does for earth is effect the tides on the eart by its gravitational force.

pulls on water in the oceans so that there are "bulges" in the ocean on both sides of the planet. The moon pulls water toward it, and this causes the bulge toward the moon. The bulge on the side of the Earth opposite the moon is caused by the moon "pulling the Earth away" from the water on that side.

If you are on the coast and the moon is directly overhead, you should experience a high tide. If the moon is directly overhead on the opposite side of the planet, you should also experience a high tide.

During the day, the Earth rotates 180 degrees in 12 hours. The moon, meanwhile, rotates 6 degrees around the earth in 12 hours. The twin bulges and the moon's rotation mean that any given coastal city experiences a high tide every 12 hours and 25 minutes or so.

so if the moon was gone which is what i think this question was asking you can see that the moon has a great effect on earth

Answer 2

As no doubt was answered, it depends on the size of the asteroid. If I can assume you mean what happens if an asteroid the size of Rhode Island hit the moon, then it could be a problem for life on Earth. The moon would fracture apart from the impact and then really be torn to pieces by the Earth's gravity. Ultimately, the Earth would have a ring system that would put Saturn to shame. But, I would imagine there would be severe impacts on the Earth from huge pieces of the Moon. I doubt if life could survive. The Earth would become another Venus, too hot for life and a poisonous atmosphere.

Answer 3

It really depends on the size of the asteroid, if it's a direct hit or not, the angle of impact, etc. The moon is bombarded by little meteors all the time, and even some not-so-little ones. It would take a pretty large asteroid to do serious damage to the moon. But I suppose if we're going to speculate, an unusually large impact could do anything from altering the moon's orbit to smashing a chuck of material out of it and give Earth moon rings.

Answer 4

it all depends on how big the asteroid is. If it is the size of a buick, probably not a whole lot, might affect the orbit slightly. If it is the size of deleware, then it would really through off the orbit and possibly alter it enough to move into the path of the earth. This would alter the gravitational pull from the Moon's orbit.

Answer 5

It would, of course, depend on the size of the asteroid. Asteroids strike the moon at a regular basis, but the size determined the force of the impact. If you look at this site:

http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/investigations/es2506/es2506page08.cfm

You can look at different sizes and densities of asteroids and their effects upon impact on the moon and earth. Asteroids up to 10km in diameter have hit the moon before, and it seems that (on earth) the only effect is debris being shot into our atmosphere. In order to destroy the moon, an object of about 3/5 its mass would have to be shot at it (velocities do come into play here, but it would be hard to propel something that large that fast through space). Since the moon is about ~3500 km in diameter (~2200 mi) it would probably require something about ~2700 km in diameter to destroy it. Ceres (the largest asteroid we've found) is only 933km in diameter, fall short of the required size to destroy the moon.

It is possible, however, that something of the size of Ceres could alter the moon's trajectory. But, since most asteroids are merely a fraction of Ceres, it is not a likely occurance.

Answer 6

Probably very little.

Our Moon is a BIG Moon, and it "gets hit" very frequently.
{that's part of its job, like Jupiter, to protect the Earth}

The largest asteroid, Ceres.is only about 400 miles in diameter.

Like getting slapped on the cheek, to our Moon.

I am a Moonchild.

Tides might be slightly affected by a very large asteroid. Also, the timing might change, such that women might have to re-figure their monthly periods, in about a million years.

That's all. No big deal.

Answer 7

Depending on the size of the asteroid, it would be pretty explosive and we might lose the moon :(

Answer 8

luckily there are not any standard asteroids super adequate to take out one among the different planets or our moon. yet whilst this style of element ought to ensue, extremely if the moon replaced into the objective, our civilization could end via hundreds of hundreds of extensive lunar fragments impacting Earth. If some quite sizeable merchandise fractured one among the different terrestrial planets -- Mercury, Venus or Mars -- Earth could be bombarded enormously heavily via fragments, plus the orbits of alternative photograph voltaic equipment bodies could be shifted slightly via lack of a helpful mass.

Answer 9

depends on the size of the asteroid.....

Answer 10

If it were big enough, womens' periods would last longer and werewolves would go into a deep dark depression.